ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author collects data from the clinical psychoanalytic situation from brain-injured patients and from patients who have no known brain injury. He tries to formulate some hypotheses about how the mindbrain is organized, and looks at the cognitive neuroscience literature for studies that might shed light on the questions. The author makes comparisons with the phenomenology of neurologically injured patients and proposes experiments that might test the hypotheses generated by his clinical data. He presents evidence from clinical material suggesting that there is a complicated interrelationship between reality judgments made during dreaming and waking states. The author thinks Robert's dream identifies several properties of the human mindbrain and raises several questions. The dream illustrates the human capacity to make judgments of reality during dreaming and to compare them with judgments made while awake. It suggests the possibility of a reality-monitoring system during sleep that is to some degree independent of waking reality-monitoring.
